Sheet-metal toy.



E. KESSLER.

.SHEET METAL TOY.

APPLlCATlON FILED IAN. 8. ms.

Patented Sept. 3,1918'.. 2 SHEETSSHEET I E. KESSLER.

SHEET METAL TOY.

APFLICATION FILED ms. 1916'.

1 ,277,?3D. Patented Se 1918.

2 SHEETS H T 2- NITED s'r rEs rATENT oFFIoEf" EMIL KESSLER, or BnooxLYN,NEW YORK.

' SHEET-METAL TOY.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, EMIL KEssLnR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings a'ndState of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheet-Metal T0ys,;

Fig. 5, and there is a U-shaped clip 22 providedwith a squaredropening24 (see Fig. 4), which slips on to the squared end of the lshaft, at theinner side of each rear wheel.

of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sheet metal toys, and the principal object ofthe invention is to provide a novel-means for connecting the wheels ofsuch toy to the axles or the like. Other "objects and aims of theinvention, more or less-broad than those stated above,

' together with the advantages inherent, will be in part obvious and inpart specifically referred to in thecourse of the following descriptionof the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts, and applications.of

- principles constituting the invention; and

the scope of protection contemplated will.

appear from the claims.

- In the accompanying drawings, which are to betaken as'a part of thisspecification, and in which I have shown a merely preferred form ofembodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation: of a; toy

embodying. the invention; *Fig. 2 is a rear.

elevation of the same with parts removed and parts broken away; Fig.81i's1a partial top plan view with certain of the parts-re moved; Fig. 4is a detail perspective view of the means for fastening the wheel to theaxle; Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line 55 of Fig.2 looking in the direction of the arrows; Fig. 6 is a side elevation ofanother form of toy embodying the invention; Fig. 7 is a front elevationof the same; and, Fig. 8 is an enlarged side elevation of the drivewheel and connected parts.

Referring to the numerals on the draw ings and particularly Figs. 1, 2and 3, which show my invention as embodied in a toy hand car or thelike, the numeral 9 indicates the platform of the device having integraldepending lugs 10 bent down at the sides" to support the axles andhaving also an upstanding lug 11 punched out from the platform. axle towhich are secured the wheels 14. The rear or driving axle is in the formof a crank shaft 15 to which is pivotally connected a link 16, the otherend of whichis pivotally connected as at 17 to a lever 18, the latterbeing pivoted on the lug 11. In the form.

shown in Fig. 1 the platfo is provided Specification ofLetters-Patent.Application filed January 8,1916. Serial No. 70,909.

The numeral 12 indicates the front Patented Sept. 3,1918.

withia seat19, on which is placed an effigy 20 connected to the lever 18as indicated by the numeral '21, so that as the lever 18oscillatestherewi'll be a corresponding movement of-the efligy. ;Eachend of the crank shaft 15 has a squared portion as indicated in.

After these clips are inposition on theshaft (and by the way they may bestraight when they areslipped on andabent into the U- sha'pe afterward,the wheels are slid on over the ends of the shaft, and then the extremeof the wheel, and the ,clipis designed to between'the wheel and'theshaft is not of importance, and the aperture through the .liubl portionof the wheel may be considerably oversize. .In. Figs. 6, 7 and S-thesameform of clip i shown applied to a toy ve- I locipede. The drive' wheelis shown at 30 and passing through the hub portion thereof is a onepiececrank shaft 31, having also integral pedal portions 32. The fork is madein two parts 34 and 35, one leg on each side of the wheel. Inassembling, the crank shaft 31 is first inserted through the hub portionof the wheel, the aperture in which may be considerably oversized topermit of this operation'. Next, the clips 22 are positioned on thecrank shaft, one on each side of the wheel, and preferably at rightangles to each other, as shown in Fig. 8, with their ends taking betweenthe spokesof the wheel, and with squared or non-circular apertures ofthe clips engaged over correspondingly formed portions of the crankshaft so that the clips and therefore the wheel will turn with theshaft. Next, the two parts of the fork, 34 and 35, are separately slidover the ends of the crank shaft to the Fig. .7 position, and thensecured together at their upper ends, or to the frame of the velocipede,as indicated-at 36. This is a simple and.

ends of the. shaft areflattened asindicated 1 at 25' to prevent lateralmovement of the :wheels. Theends of the U-shaped member v22 are bentsoasto take between the spokes of the main portion and pedal portions exltending at right angles from the hangers. In positioning a wheel on thiscrank shaft the wheel is slipped over one of the pedal portions, pastthe bend between the pedal portion and the hanger and then past the bendbetween the hanger and the main p0r-' tion of the shaft so that it takesits final position on the main portion of the shaft, and would be freetorotate thereon except for the provision ofthe clips. In the same waythe clips and the parts of the fork are brought to position, one at atime, the

squared or non-circular portions ofthe clips engaging thecorrespondingly shaped portions of the main portions of the shaft, sothat the clips and therefore the wheel which they engage, willvrotatewith the shaft, and the parts of the fork in each case coming outside ofthe clips.

Inasmuch as many changes could be made in the above construction, andmany apparently widely different embodiments of my invention could bemade without departing and all statements of the scope of the invention'which, as a matterof language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim:

1. In a device of the kind described, a shaft having a non-circularportion, a wheel rotatable with the shaft, and a U-shaped clip having anon-circular aperture corresponding with the non-circular portion of theshaft and having its ends engaging the wheel.

2. In a device of the kind described, a crank shaft extending throughand at opposite sides of a .wheel a pair of clips on the crank shaft,and rotating therewith one at each side of the wheel and having theirends engaging the wheel, said. clips being dis- -posed1at right anglesto each other. I

4. In a device of the kind described, a crank shaft extending throughand at oppo- -sitesides of a wheel, a pair of clips on the crank shaft,and rotating therewith one at each side of the wheel and having theirends engaging the wheel, and a two-piece fork,

one part on each side of the wheel, and out side of the clipsrespectively.

5. In a device of the kind described, a shaft,a Wheel onthe shaft and aclip fixed on the'shaft for rotation'therewith and having a portionengaging'the wheel.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EMIL KESSLER.

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